Born in Luzy,France in 1946,the Artist graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Lyon in 1967, worked in the Far-East as an oil prospector,and travelled through the Americas in a VW camper as a photographer, before moving to the US in 1974. His early shows were of photography, and after years as an interior and furniture designer, he started painting in 1981. Entirely self-taught, he went from hard edge op art, to architectural abstractions in iridescent acrylics, to pastels of the figure, to charcoal drawings on enormous linen panels of mythical scenes inspired by the Carravagios seen on a trip to Italy in 1982.

    The artist started painting in oils on canvas at the end of 1985, then developped his own technique of working in oils on large sheets of gessoed watercolor paper, combining the brilliant transparency of watercolor and the rich dark tones of oils. Several years were spentinvestigating the play of light and shadow, reflections and refractions, transparency and opacity, trying to approach the traditional still life subjects in a fresh and personal way.

    He then became very interested in collections of small ordinary objects and the effects of strong directional light on different kinds of shapes, surfaces and textures . He started using watercolor for pieces with a lot of texture in 1988. In 1991, the paintings started showing a mixture of objets rather than objects of the same kind. The collections serie culminated in a 4ftH x 15ft L oil oftravel related objects commissioned by the Hyatt Corporation for their new hotel in Paris.

    At the end of 1993, the Artist started to use the finer and more unusual flea market finds of the last 20 years, arranged on a shelf in ways reminiscent of 17th century trompe l'oeil still-lives, and painted in oils on linen at a larger than life scale. A renewed interest in drawing ,combined with oil or watercolor, led to a series ofunusual nudes and doll portraits. A set of huge "Unfinished Historical Paintings" were inspired by an unfinished painting of the french artist David. The articulated wooden figures collected in Guatemala appeared in the most recent paintings, the last one being a 6ft H x 10ft W triptych : "the Baptism of Clovis" , which took 6 months to complete.

    The Artist then brought in the third dimension in a group of shrines with painted panels on their sides, inspired by the reliquaries of medieval Europe. The next step was into pure sculpture with a project called "Dummies with Souls", a series of lifesize mannequins which can be seen in the sculpture section. These were First shown at LeMieux galleries in New-orleans, the show opening on "White Linen Night" 2000, a street fair and joint opening for all the Galleries on Julia Street that draws a huge audience. They were also shown at Monty Stabler Galleries in Birmingham, and through the summer of 2003 at the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan,Alabama.

    The Artist has over the years won a number of awards in the Magic city art connection and BluffPark shows in Birmingham,Alabama, the Gasparilla Festival of Tampa ,Florida ($15000 Best of show in 1994), the Alabama watercolor Society juried shows, and the Arches International Watercolor Competition. An article about his work was published in the february issue of The Artist Magazine. His work is represented in a number of corporate collections, including Alabama Power Co, Southtrust Bank, Parisian Inc., B.E & K, Piedmont Hospital, Bridgestone Tire Co, Coca Cola Enterprises, Tampa Power, and the Hyatt Corporation.